INSPIRING BOOMER WOMEN to TRAVEL
“At 6,000 m (more than 19,500 ft.) above sea level, the Tibetan Plateau is both remote and hard to reach.”
—the BBC
So I had always dreamed of reaching the “the roof of the world,” Tibet. I finally made it …
Not that I’m counting, but the last time I checked the “largest online community of female nomads” site, I had 542 likes and 153 comments. And all of the comments were at least civil, a strange and heady sensation.
How …
My brain hurts from trying to unearth memories of my truncated career as a tour guide for preteens and teenagers in Europe nearly 45 years ago. I believe that the experience (both the disasters and my inability to evade them) …
So the ad appeared as if sent by a celestial messenger: Help Wanted—Tour Leader in Europe. It was 1976, and I was out of work. I had a series of short-term jobs vaguely related to my education in broadcast journalism—a …
When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 60s I was an obsessive reader. One of my favorite subjects was travel, and I became fascinated by countries I considered “exotic” (definitely meat for a kid from a small …